Yes, There Is Racism
I am a seventy-four year old Southerner. Have I seen racism? Yes! From white and colored water fountains to separate but unequal schools. I also remember Italians being called Wops and people of Polish decent called Pollacks. I recall Native Americans being depicted as savages to be mowed down by white cowboys.
However, I also experienced Martin Luther King, the marches and the speech at the Washington Memorial. I remember the Johnson administration and the Civil Rights Act.
I know first hand about affirmative action. I know about racial quotas. I've seen the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission in action who's prime concern is to protect minorities from real or supposed injustice.
My children have gone to public school with black children and been taught by black teachers since the first grade. They had some black friends. In most instances they never chose their associates by the color of their skin but by what they did and how they acted.
I have gone to white churches for my entire life and have never heard racist remarks uttered from the pulpit. My denomination has sent millions of dollars to mission efforts in black countries.
Our speech has been edited to eliminate any word which could possibly be negatively construed by blacks as degrading. From colored to Negro to Black to African to African American.
Where is the racism? Are those who talk about it looking into our hearts? Or is this on the black side a presumption that if you're white you're against blacks. If this is their thinking where did it come from. It didn't come from the schools, which are so politically correct it's sickening. It didn't come from the press which is so paranoid that truth takes a back seat to being thought of as racist.
Where is the racism? It is in the black churches, which have a weighty influence on the black community. Most white churches would say oh, that the white membership was as strongly influenced by their church as the black community.
America is not a perfect society. We are made up of people who are imperfect. But to say that the country has piled on an ethnic group based on the history since the 1964 Civil Rights Act, affirmative action, the EEOC and political correctness is beyond credibility. Think about it.
However, I also experienced Martin Luther King, the marches and the speech at the Washington Memorial. I remember the Johnson administration and the Civil Rights Act.
I know first hand about affirmative action. I know about racial quotas. I've seen the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission in action who's prime concern is to protect minorities from real or supposed injustice.
My children have gone to public school with black children and been taught by black teachers since the first grade. They had some black friends. In most instances they never chose their associates by the color of their skin but by what they did and how they acted.
I have gone to white churches for my entire life and have never heard racist remarks uttered from the pulpit. My denomination has sent millions of dollars to mission efforts in black countries.
Our speech has been edited to eliminate any word which could possibly be negatively construed by blacks as degrading. From colored to Negro to Black to African to African American.
Where is the racism? Are those who talk about it looking into our hearts? Or is this on the black side a presumption that if you're white you're against blacks. If this is their thinking where did it come from. It didn't come from the schools, which are so politically correct it's sickening. It didn't come from the press which is so paranoid that truth takes a back seat to being thought of as racist.
Where is the racism? It is in the black churches, which have a weighty influence on the black community. Most white churches would say oh, that the white membership was as strongly influenced by their church as the black community.
America is not a perfect society. We are made up of people who are imperfect. But to say that the country has piled on an ethnic group based on the history since the 1964 Civil Rights Act, affirmative action, the EEOC and political correctness is beyond credibility. Think about it.
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